Word: plainting
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...more lovers in Diana's future, and that she will never scale down her demands. Her story is told in rather slapdash fashion: the children, for instance, seem like shadowy refugees from an earlier draft. The tone shifts too suddenly and too often-from comedy to com- plaint to rather fancy lyricism. Nonetheless, the author, a poet with four volumes of graceful, glib verse to her credit, has written a heroine who is sturdier and funnier than she perhaps intended. Diana is a girl with the courage of her own selfishness. A girl right out there doing her buck...
...political system. There were more than 10,000 of them at a kickoff rally in Providence, a meager 2,500 in more conservative Indianapolis, then an impressive 25,000 last week in a sports arena in Bloomington, Minn. Their attitude was expressed in exaggerated form at Indianapolis in the plaint of Folk Singer Phil Ochs: "Here's to the land you've torn out the heart of;/Richard Nixon, find yourself another country to be part...
...businessman's lack of enterprise. "Everyone cheats with their secretaries," she wails. "I expected something better from my husband!" But beneath the holy acrimony are wounding truths. Successful Sam is no longer struggling; he wants the arrivé's most inaccessible prize: a destination. His plaint, "I just want to do it all over again," is a caricatured truth on the verge of tragedy. But, as always, Simon pulls back when the laughter stops. His comic mask seems to hide not wisdom but embarrassment...
...response on the Right to the rising tide of protest to our debilitating educational system is to call for ever greater restrictions, for "law and order," and for ever greater elitism. ("Let those who are not here for scholarship leave, or be expelled.") This is the plaint of those so successfully socialized into the system that they have but one morbid fear: disorder. It doesn't matter how morally repugnant your actions are, they are acceptable as long as you keep them orderly and through proper channels. This is a pathological attitude, and the University suffers from it. It elevates...
...plaint became public in January, when New York magazine published excerpts from Amen: The Diary of Rabbi Martin Siegel (edited by Mel Ziegler: World: $6.95), a book detailing nearly ten months of Siegel's life as rabbi of Temple Sinai in suburban Lawrence, N.Y. The article, which assailed the materialism and shallow religious loyalties of Siegel's congregation, provoked angry reactions throughout the New York area. The book is due to reach the bookstores this month and should incite more. It is a depressing portrait of a U.S. Jewish congregation and its rabbi...